Virginia Healy-Tangney

Virginia Healy-Tangney is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliate of the MIT Leadership Center. She teaches Communication for Leaders and Advanced Leadership Communication, an elective for full-time MBA students and Sloan Fellows. Healy-Tangney co-created and teaches the MIT Leadership Center’s ID Lab, a unique leadership development course for first-year MIT Sloan MBA students. She also coaches and teaches in MIT Sloan’s Executive Education programs. Prior to joining MIT Sloan in 2007, she was director of executive communications at State Street Corporation, providing brand message strategy and leadership communication development for C-Suite executives. Healy-Tangney holds an AB in English literature from Boston State College, an MA in English and rhetoric from the University of Massachusetts, and an MS in communication management from Simmons College.